Liberty to the Captives

Author: Raymond Rivera
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802869017
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 173

Book Description
Liberty to the Captives is a book for any Christians who want to learn how to bring hope and redemption to their communities — for those who are ready to step beyond their comfort zone, leave the status quo behind, and take up Christ's call to minister within a world crying out for the freedom only God can bring. Longtime pastor Raymond Rivera's testimony of a life completely turned around — from gang member to RCA pastor — underscores his powerful message. Full of practical advice about how holistic community-based ministry can bring transformation, healing, and liberation from captivity, Liberty to the Captives encourages Christians to respond to God's call by ministering wherever God has placed them. Based on over forty-five years of pastoring inner-city churches, Rivera's inspiring vision challenges all Christians to think again about how their faith should lead to social action and defense of society's most vulnerable people.

He Came to Set the Captives Free

Author: Rebecca Brown
Publisher: Whitaker House
ISBN: 1603741720
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
For seventeen years, Elaine served her master, Satan, with total commitment. Then she met Dr. Rebecca Brown, who served her master, Jesus Christ, with equal commitment. Elaine, one of the top witches in the U.S., clashed with Dr. Brown, who stood against her alone. In the titanic life-and-death struggle that followed, Dr. Brown nearly lost her life. Elaine, finding a power and love greater than anything Satan could give her, left Satan and totally committed her life to Jesus Christ. This is an honest, in-depth account of Satan's activities today. You'll see how to: Recognize and combat the many satanists who regularly infiltrate and destroy Christian churches. Recognize and combat satanic attacks. Recognize those serving Satan, and bring them to Jesus Christ.

Setting Captives Free

Author: Jake Kail
Publisher: Destiny Image Incorporated
ISBN: 9780768454369
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
The Spirit of God within you has power and authority over all the works of the devil! Deliverance ministry should be a normal part of your everyday Christian life! Deliverance was a key part of Jesus' ministry and we need it today more than ever. Even in our modern day, demons work to influence and oppress. But it takes the compassion of Father God, the power of the Spirit, and the model of Jesus Christ to cast out demons, bringing the oppressed into freedom and wholeness. In this user-friendly handbook, pastor and author Jake Kail equips everyday Christians to effectively cast out demons, setting the captives free with power and compassion. With easy-to-follow strategies, powerful Biblical principles, and real life testimonies, Jake helps you release deliverance-starting with your own life! Get ready to learn how to: Focus on the foundations of deliverance ministry: intimacy with God and hearing His voice. Recognize the various ways that evil spirits get in. Use the 3 Keys for Deliverance to set captives free. Break free from bondage to sin, demonic torment, and oppression. Expel spirits that cause sickness and disease. Receive deliverance from destructive words, generational curses, and ungodly soul ties. Effectively minister deliverance to youth and children. Whether you need to experience your own breakthrough, or you sense God calling you to release His freedom to others, you have been anointed to set captives free! This book will help you walk in that anointing.

The Captives

Author: Debra Jo Immergut
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062747568
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
A Recommended Summer Read from Vanity Fair * New York Post * BBC The riveting story of a woman convicted of a brutal crime, the prison psychologist who recognizes her as his high-school crush—and the charged reunion that sets off an astonishing chain of events with dangerous consequences for both As an inmate psychologist at a state prison, Frank Lundquist has had his fair share of surprises. But nothing could possibly prepare him for the day in which his high school object of desire, Miranda Greene, walks into his office for an appointment. Still reeling from the scandal that cost him his Manhattan private practice and landed him in his unglamorous job at Milford Basin Correctional Facility in the first place, Frank knows he has an ethical duty to reassign Miranda’s case. But Miranda is just as beguiling as ever, and he’s insatiably curious: how did a beautiful high school sprinter and the promising daughter of a congressman end up incarcerated for a shocking crime? Even more compelling: though Frank remembers every word Miranda ever spoke to him, she gives no indication of having any idea who he is. Inside the prison walls, Miranda is desperate and despairing, haunted by memories of a childhood tragedy, grappling with a family legacy of dodgy moral and political choices, and still trying to unwind the disastrous love that led to her downfall. And yet she is also grittily determined to retain some control over her fate. Frank quickly becomes a potent hope for her absolution—and maybe even her escape. Propulsive and psychologically astute, The Captives is an intimate and gripping meditation on freedom and risk, male and female power, and the urges toward both corruption and redemption that dwell in us all.

Setting All the Captives Free

Author: Ian K. Steele
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773589902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552

Book Description
Among the many upheavals in North America caused by the French and Indian War was a commonplace practice that affected the lives of thousands of men, women, and children: being taken captive by rival forces. Most previous studies of captivity in early America are content to generalize from a small selection of sources, often centuries apart. In Setting All the Captives Free, Ian Steele presents, from a mountain of data, the differences rather than generalities as well as how these differences show the variety of circumstances that affected captives’ experiences. The product of a herculean effort to identify and analyze the captives taken on the Allegheny frontier during the era of the French and Indian War, Setting All the Captives Free is the most complete study of this topic. Steele explores genuine, doctored, and fictitious accounts in an innovative challenge to many prevailing assumptions and arguments, revealing that Indians demonstrated humanity and compassion by continuing to take numerous captives when their opponents took none, by adopting and converting captives into kin during the war, and by returning captives even though doing so was a humiliating act that betrayed their societies' values. A fascinating and comprehensive work by an acclaimed scholar, Setting All the Captives Free takes the study of the French and Indian War in America to an exciting new level.

Revolutionary Freedom

Author: Joey LeTourneau
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN: 0768489601
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Book Description
Releasing the Captives is a prophetic journey presenting an unseen captivity that holds Christians back from the purposes and calling God has for their lives. A spiritually thought-provoking voyage into a prison where a prisoner’s mind binds his body with chains that only he can break by focusing on Jesus. The prisoner encounters the Lord, the Warden (satan), apostle Paul, Peter, Mary Magdalene, and Abraham. The prison scenes are vivid and the bondages that keep believers from being completely free are brutally true and will stir your spirit and soul. Presented in a refreshingly unique way, new as well as seasoned Christians will be shocked into realizing that they are imprisoning themselves day after day, year after year—falling as easy prey to satan’s deceptions and evil ploys. You will learn how to: See yourself and others through God’s eyes. Avoid traps and lies of the enemy. Live outside of the bondages that grow comfortable. Walk forward with the Lord, not turn back to previous cycles. Live out the testimony of Jesus to release captives. You can leave behind the chains of judgment, the bars of unbelief, and the walls of your past to join Jesus and hear God’s voice, creating a new closeness with the Lord.

Setting the Captives Free

Author: Marion L. S. Carson
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
ISBN: 0718844718
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 119

Book Description
Setting the Captives Free explores how a theological understanding of slavery goes against the idea of a God who is loving and just with the intention of being widely used in churches, activist organisations and groups, and by individuals. Ardently arguing that slavery is incompatible with Christianity, Marion Carson analyses how both anti-slavery and pro-slavery movements have been justified with the help of Scripture. In Setting the Captives Free, she provides an answer to the question What can the Bible say to us about contemporary human trafficking? By looking through important passages from the Old and the New Testament, Carson suggests what they might have to say to us about slavery in the twenty-first century. She analyses how Christians changed their views of slavery after its abolition, before closely examining what the Bible has to say about slavery in general, especially with regards to prostitution. At the end of each chapter, study questions are included to aid individual and group discussions in the hope that they will increase awareness of human trafficking and encourage more Christians to become actively involved in its eradication.

Setting Captives Free

Author: Jody Cleveland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733760959
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
A 30-Day Devotional for TransformationHelp for all the issues of life through the cross of Christ.Do you know that there is a way that you can overcome all the issues that you face in life? Whether the problem is sin, sadness, discouragement, rejection, anger, fear, weariness, emptiness, failure, being overwhelmed, or even facing death, there is a way to overcome."fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer, and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him, he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." Hebrews 12:2 (NIV)Fixing our eyes on the problem is the world's approach to change, whereas fixing our eyes on Jesus is the Bible's way of transformation. Come learn with us how to fix our eyes on Jesus, so that we might triumph over life's tragedies and be more than conquerors through Jesus who loves us.

Deliverance to the Captives

Author: Karl Barth
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1608999521
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
This book takes us behind prison bars--to hear powerful, simple, direct sermons by the man widely known as the twentieth century's most influential theologian. Originally delivered to inmates of the prison in Basel, Switzerland, these sermons shine with Karl Barth's thought and exaltation of the living Christ. Including sermons on the great feasts of the Christian year such as Christmas and Easter, Deliverance to the Captives offers new hope powerfully phrased, and a wide entry into the thought of a supreme theologian.

Captives Bound in Chains Made Free by Christ

Author: Thomas Doolittle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781626632783
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In this work Doolittle exhorts and teaches from Isaiah 61:1, "The Spirit of the Lord God is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek. He has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound." This is a thoroughly evangelical work that demonstrates the practical reasons why sinners are bound up by sin and the devil, and need to be delivered from the bondage of a depraved mind and will. He covers reasons such as ignorance, prejudice, love of the world, presumption, despair and a number of others as to why sinners often do not come to Christ. He also expounds on what freedom in Christ is, and how one may obtain being freed by Christ from their chains of sin and wickedness.